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POACH, v.t.
POACH, v.t. [Eng. poke, poker, to punch; L. pungo.]
To stab; to pierce; to spear; as, to poach fish.
POACH, v.i. To be trodden with deep tracks, as soft ground. We say, the ground is soft in spring, and poaches badly.
To cook, as eggs, by breaking
them into boiling water] also, to cook with butter after breaking in a
vessel.
Bacon. To rob of game; to pocket and convey away
by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder.
Garth. To steal or pocket
game, or to carry it away privately, as in a bag; to kill or destroy
game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully;
as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon.
To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish.
[Obs.] Carew. To force, drive, or plunge into
anything.
[Obs.]
His horse poching one of his legs into some hollow ground. Sir W. Temple. To make soft or muddy by trampling
Tennyson. To begin and not complete.
[Obs.]
Bacon. To become soft or
muddy.
Chalky and clay lands . . . chap in summer, and poach in winter. Mortimer. | ||||||||